March 11, 2016 4:37pm ESTMarch 11, 2016 4:37pm ESTSHR's move to Ford in 2017 created speculation about what the team's drivers would do. Kevin Harvick, a Cup champion and Chevy driver since 2001, has an answer.Kevin Harvick(Getty Images)

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Harvick handled the matter during Friday's media sessions at Phoenix. His answer made it clear that he will stay with SHR. Goodbye, Chevy; hello, Ford.

“I don’t see any reason why that wouldn’t happen,” Harvick said of a possible SHR departure. “For me, I’m in the best position that I’ve been in with my team. I feel like I have the best crew chief in the garage" in Rodney Childers.

“It would be pretty tough to turn around and walk out on everybody who has been a part of building everything that we have built so far.”

Harvick entered Cup competition with Richard Childress Racing in 2001. That was a difficult start, as he replaced Dale Earnhardt following Earnhardt's death in the Daytona 500. Since then, Harvick has driven nothing but Chevys.